Sally, the American student, was half-asleep at a corner table after a pub crawl.
Rome’s Deadly Pub Crawls Kill American College Student|Barbie Latza Nadeau|March 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And he rammed his own rifle one inch from the face of the half-asleep figure.
The Night the SEALS Captured the Butcher of Fallujah|Patrick Robinson|November 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Women brought their half-asleep children and I drew on my stock of sweets.
The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow|Edward A. Steiner
You're half-asleep, when in the darkened ward some one jumps up in bed, shouting, "Hold your bloody hands up."
The Glory of the Trenches|Coningsby Dawson
There was no skurrying of rabbits, or twitter of the half-asleep birds.
Grim Tales|Edith Nesbit
The serpents were motionless in their glass house, and lay, half-asleep, curled around the trunks of trees.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVI, July 1852, Vol. V|Various
The Mexican horse-wrangler was a lazy looking, half-asleep fellow; but he sat a pony as though he had grown in the saddle.
Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch|Alice B. Emerson
half-asleep
adjective
neither fully asleep nor awake
Words nearby half-asleep
Half a loaf is better than none, half a mind, half-and-half, half and half nail, half-arsed, half-asleep, half-assed, half-awake, halfback, half-baked, half-ball